Seat No.: ________                                              Enrolment No.
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                GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
               BE - SEMESTER–III (NEW) - EXAMINATION – SUMMER 2017
  Subject Code: 2132301                                                     Date: 31/05/2017
  Subject Name: Introduction to Plastic Material Science
  Time: 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM                                                 Total Marks: 70
  Instructions:
          1. Attempt all questions.
          2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
          3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
                                                                          MARKS
Q.1         Short Questions                                            14
      1     Define initiators.
      2     Draw the structure of Polystyrene and Polyvinyl chloride.
      3     What are natural polymers? Give examples.
      4     Write the full name of PP and PMMA.
      5     Bulk polymerization technique gives us the purest form
            of polymer ----True or False.
      6     ___________ polymerization is also called Pearl
            polymerization.
      7     Define Inhibitors.
      8     List the three steps of chain polymerization process.
      9     What is the molecular weight of PP if the no. of repeating
            units is 1500.
      10    Define hetero chain polymer. Give example
      11    Give on example of organic polymer and inorganic
            polymer.
      12    Give the schematic representation of random and graft
            copolymers.
      13    State the functional group and functionality of
            C6H5COOH.
      14    Define Glass Transition Temperature.
Q.2   (a)   Define homopolymers. Give at least two examples of it.          03
      (b)   What are thermoplastic polymers. Explain briefly giving         04
            examples.
      (c)   Differentiate    chain    polymerization      and      step     07
            polymerization.
                                       OR
      (c)   Write a short note on initiators used in free radical           07
            polymerization.
Q.3   (a)   Explain the chain termination by chain transfer reaction.       03
      (b) Explain briefly Plastics, Elastomers, Fibres & Liquid             04
          Resins.
      (c) Write points of difference between low molecular weight           07
          compounds and polymers.
                                     OR
Q.3   (a) Define thermoset plastics. Give examples of thermoset             03
          plastics.
      (b) Differentiate between crystalline and amorphous                   04
          polymers.
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      (c) Explain the effect of functionality on structure of        07
          polymers.
Q.4   (a) Explain homochain and heterochain polymers.                03
      (b) Explain the bulk polymerization technique                  04
      (c) Explain free radical polymerization.                       07
                                     OR
Q.4   (a) Write short note on hydrolysis and aminolysis reactions.   03
      (b) Explain the suspension polymerization technique.           04
      (c) Write a short note on co-ordination polymerization.        07
Q.5   (a) Explain monodispersed and polydispersed system in          03
          polymers.
      (b) What is the importance of Tg and its relation to HDT       04
      (c) Describe effect of structure on crystallisability of       07
          polymers.
                                      OR
Q.5   (a) What is the practical significance of polymer molecular    03
          weight?
      (b) Explain optical isomerism in stereo-regular polymers.      04
      (c) Describe the factors influencing Tg of polymers.           07
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